The
following abstracts have been submitted and approved for the NIST Sigma Xi
20th Annual Postdoctoral Poster Presentation to be held on
Wednesday, 27 Feb. 2013. The presenters names are listed as first
author. All eligible postdoctoral and guest researcher authors have been
underlined.

Congratulations
to our participants named Most Outstanding and Outstanding in each category!
Those poster abstracts are noted below (** for Most Outstanding, * for Outstanding).

The
category key, with the number of submissions in each category, is as follows:

M:
Materials
(18) C:
Chemistry
(16)

P:
Physics
(14)
Y:
Polymers
(7)

E: Engineering
(5) B:
Biology
(6)

X:
Mathematics
(0) T:
Biotechnology (12)

Most
Outstanding Posters and runners-up will have their posters displayed in the
Hall of Flags for two weeks following the awards presentation on 1 Mar. 2013.
Poster numbers in bold type indicate those posters presented by Sigma Xi
members.

Poster
presenters: Please check this site to make sure all of the posted information
for your poster is correct. Contact Doug Meier (dmeier@nist.gov) if youd like to make a
change in your category or provide corrections for your abstract. We have
two sessions  Session I (9:00 am to noon) is for
categories M, P, E, and X, and Session II (1:00 pm to 4:00 pm) is for categories C, Y, B, and T. Your
poster is numbered by Poster Number and Category Code.
So for example, if your poster number is 10 M
under the Session I heading, this would indicate that you are at poster
position 10 in the morning session, Materials category. Hanging of
posters will begin in the Hall of Flags 30 minutes before your session
starts. The maximum poster width is 60 inches. Please bring push pins
with which to hang your poster.